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F. s'rhAuss RHOVABLE HARMONICA IOUTHPIECE FOR WIND INSTRUMENTS Much 12,1929.

Filed Feb. 4, 1928 ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 12, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND STRAUSS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Application filed February 4, 1828.

This invention relates to improvements in toy musical wind instrumentsand more especially to the mouthpiece thereof.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide an instrument of thecharacter re- 'tierred to, with a removable harmonica mouthpiece adaptedto fit into various shapes and kinds of horns.

Another object of the invention is to provide a mouthpiece casingadapted to enclose a harmonica supported therein, so as to prevent anyair blown therein from escaping through any crevice in the said casing,and thus make the harmonica give forth fuller and richer tones.

A further object of the invention is to provide a harmonica mouthpieceadapted to be removably held in a tone arm and comprising a hormonicaand a two-part or seetional sheet metal casing therefor, one of thecasing sections having a flange on each side thereof ail-tightlysupported in turned-over extensions or flanges on the sides of the othercasing section.

Another object is to produce a device of the charachw described in whichthe maximun'i simplicity of constructimi and operation is secured.

Uther objects and advantages will appear as the nature of the im)rovements is better und rstood, the invention consisting substant' allyin the novel arrangement and corelation of parts herein fully described,and iilustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein similar referencecharacters are used to describe corresponding parts throughout theseveral views, and then finally pointed out and specifically defined andindicated in the appended claim.

The disclosure made the basis of eXempli tying the present inventiveconcept suggests a practical embodiment thereof, but the invention isnot to be restricted to the exact details of the disclosure, and thelatter, therefore, is to be understood from an illustrative, rather thana restrictive standpoint.

The inventive idea involved is capable of Serial No. 251,819.

receiving a .aricty of mechanical expressions, one of which, for thepurposes of illustration, is snown in the accompanying drawings, inwhicln Figure 1 is a side view of a wind instruin A6 having my improvedmouthpiece inserted therein,

lig. 2 is a top plan view of the mouthis an end view thereof lookingfrom the right of Big. 2, and

Fig. st is an enlarged sectional view taken on line 4%, Fi

Referring to the crawings in detail, 5 indicates a toy nnisical windinstrument coma tube 6, a saxoplmne shaped outtthcu-eof which is bentover and and the lizuures 15 of the lower ,4

1e flanges it; are l en pressed b around the flanges l5 so as to inairtight or as nearly so as pos sible. to prevent any air blown into themouthpiece while playing from csca )ing at the sides, and thus insurefull, rich and melo\.-ii(;-iis tones to emanate from the instrument.

The tubular portion 13 13 of the mouthpiece, is frictionally maintainedin the elbow and may readily be removed there from to be inserted into adifferent tppe of horn or instrument.

From the foregoing it will readily be seen that I have provided aharmonica mouthpiece for toy musical wind instruments, which mouthpieceis adapted to be removably maintained in a variety of diftion aharmonica clampingly supported he- 19 ferent types of horns andwhichWill be airtween the said sections, and a flange on each tight at thesides thereof. side of each of the sections, the flange on Havingdescribed my invention, What I each side of one of the sections beingbent claim as new and desire to secure by Letters over and around theflange on each side of Patent, is: the other section in a substantiallyairtight 15 A mouthpiece for toy musical instruments, manner.

comprising a lower casing section, an up- I per casingsection abuttingthe lower sec- FERDINAND STRAUSS.

